HImachal CM may face graft charges

I’ve been framed, he counters

Shimla: Pandemonium prevailed in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly today, the second day of the monsoon session, as opposition BJP MLAs engaged in a bitter exchange of words with Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh over media reports that CBI has finalised the charge-sheet against him in a disproportionate assets case.

The CM said, “I am not scared of such charge-sheets. I have faced trial in session court twice earlier during the regime of Dhumal in the past and came out clean. I will face it this time also and fight it out and have full faith in judiciary. These are politically motivated charges and I would not be cowed down by such things.”

Provoked by the remarks of the chief minister, the BJP members started raising slogans and staged a walkout but returned after a few minutes.

The CM said that it was a fallout of the action taken by his government against alleged irregularities in the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA), led by Anurag Thakur.